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Dr. Ravi Ahuja

Curriculum Vitae | University education | Occupational career | Research experience | Teaching | Organisation of Workshops | Scholarships | Publications

Curriculum Vitae nach oben

Place and date of birth Aachen/Aix de Chapelle, 23 June 1961
Nationality German
Family status married to Dr. Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, one daughter
Phone +49-(0)30-80307-244
E-mail

University education nach oben

1998 ‘Grundständige Promotion’ (Ph.D. without preceding M.A.), Humanities Faculty, University of Heidelberg; magna cum laude; dissertation: „Die Erzeugung kolonia­ler Staatlichkeit und das Pro­blem der Arbeit. Eine Studie zur Sozial­geschichte der Stadt Madras und ihres Hinter­lan­des zwischen 1750 und 1800“ [The making of a colonial state and the problem of labour. A study of the social history of Madras City and its hinterland, c. 1750-1800].
1991 – 1998 South Asian History, European History and Indology at Heidelberg University (1991-1993; 1995-1998) and School of Oriental and African Studies, London (1993-1995)

Occupational career nach oben

2006 – 2008 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. Research programme ‘World Wars and World Views: Arabic and Indian War Experiences between Self-willed Appropriation and Propaganda’, project on Indian prisoners of war in Germany during World War I.
2002 ‘Wissenschaftlicher Assistent’ (Assistant Professor), Department of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg (on leave since 1 October 2004)
2001 – 2002 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. Research programme ‘The Indian Ocean – spaces and movements’, project on ‘maritime work culture and British colonialism in the Indian Ocean’.
1999 – 2001 Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African and Asian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. Project on ‘pathways of power: the social history of transport in colonial Orissa’ as part of the German Research Council’s Orissa Research Programme
1998 – 1999 Research Assistant, Department of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
1991 – 1998 University education (see above)
1989 – 1991 Typesetter, Eschborn a. Ts.
1985 – 1989 Youth work, Frankfurt a. M.
1980 – 1985 Vocational training and employment as typesetter, Frankfurt a. M.
1980 Courses in computer programming, Eschborn a. Ts.
1979 Abitur (university entrance diploma), Eichwald Gymnasium, Schwalbach a. Ts.

Research experience nach oben

2004 (1 month) Bodleian Library, Oxford
British Library, London
2004 (2 months) National Archives of India und Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi
2003 (2 months) National Archives of India und Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi
2001 (2 months) British Library und Public Record Office, London
2001 (3 weeks) Archives of the International Labor Office, Geneva
2000 (4 months) Orissa State Archives, Bhubaneswar
National Archives of India, New Delhi
1999 (4 months) British Library and School of Oriental and African Studies, London
1997 (1 Monat) India Office Library and Records, London
British Library, London
School of Oriental and African Studies, London
1997 (4 months) Tamil Nadu State Archives, Chennai
Archive of the Archbishop of St. Thomé, Chennai
Connemara Library (National Library), Chennai
Institut Français, Pondicherry
1996 (2 Wochen) Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen, Halle
1994-95 (12 months) India Office Library and Records, London
British Library, London
School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Teaching nach oben

Various courses at the Universities of Heidelberg, Hannover and at Humboldt University, Berlin; translated titles:

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‘Coolies, caste and capital: an introduction into Indian labour history’ (2006)
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‘Beyond the village idyll: social change and rural protest in 19th and 20th century colonial India’ (2004)
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‘Problems and perspectives of transnational history’ (2004)
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‘The social history of India’s metropolises from the beginnings of colonial rule to the present’ (2003-4)
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‘Who was Shivaji? The Maratha state as history and political myth’ (2003-4)
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‘The “sepoy” and the Empire: the social history of the Indian colonial army’ (2003)
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‘New technologies, colonialism and Indian society in the 19th and 20th centuries’ (2002-3)
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‘The social history of disease and famine in colonial South Asia’ (2002)
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‘The “coolies” of the British Empire: the social history of the working classes in colonial India, c. 1850-1947’ (2001)

Design and implementation of an innovative interdisciplinary teaching programme ‘Lehrschwerpunkt Megastädte Südasiens’ [Megacities in South Asia] (parallel undergraduate courses in history and social anthropology supplemented by excursion, film and literature program, ‘workshop for students’ with presentations by historians, anthropologists, sociologists and geographers, 2003-4)

Various lectures at the Universities of Berlin (HU), Heidelberg and Vienna (see ‘Conference Papers and Lectures’)

Organisation of workshops and conference panels nach oben

Panel ‘Empires, Nationalisms and the Containment of Labour in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Issues’, 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund, 6-9 July 2004 (with Ben Zachariah)

International Workshop ‘Exploring Indian Ocean Cultures and Histories’, St. Cross College, University of Oxford, 26 April 2003 (with J.-G. Deutsch et al.)

Panel ‘South Asian Society, British Colonialism and the Emergence of “Subaltern Networks” in the Indian Ocean Region’, 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Heidelberg, 9-14 September 2002 (with H. Fischer-Tiné)

Panel ‘Colonialism as Civilizing Mission – The Case of British India’, International Conference of Asian Studies (ICAS), Berlin, 9-12 August 2001 (with H. Fischer-Tiné)

Workshop ‘Perspectives on the Indian Ocean’, Zentrum Modener Orient, Berlin, 14-16 July 2000 (with J.-G. Deutsch et al.).

Scholarships nach oben

1991 – 1998 Hans Böckler Foundation, studentship and Ph.D. scholarship
2000 – 2006 German Research Council, various research and travel grants

Publications and Presentations nach oben

I. Monographs

1. Die Erzeugung kolonialer Staatlichkeit und das Problem der Arbeit. Eine Studie zur Sozialgeschichte der Stadt Madras und ihres Hinterlandes zwischen 1750 und 1800 (= Beiträge zur Südasienforschung 183), Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner-Verlag, 1999 [The Making of a colonial state and the problem of labour. A study on the social history of Madras City and its hinterland, c. 1750-1800].

Reviews:

  East and West 49,1-4 (1999), pp. 586-588 (Mario Prayer)
  Internationales Asienforum 31,1-2 (2000), pp. 151-152 (Franz-Josef Post)
  Periplus. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 2000, pp. 200-203 (Michael Mann)
  Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 29,5 (2001), pp. 525-530 (Joachim Heidrich)
  International Review of Social History 46,2 (2001), pp. 280-281 (Dirk Kolff)
  Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte 1 (2001), (K. S. Mathew)
  Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 44,2 (2001), pp. 232-234 (Niels Brimnes)

2. Arbeit und Kolonialherrschaft in Indien, 1750-1947, Hagen: Fernuniversität, 2001 (Open University Reader, 264 pp.) [Labour and colonial rule in India, 1750-1947].

3. Pathways of Empire. Circulation, ‘Public Works’ and Social Space in Colonial Orissa (c. 1780-1914) (to be published).

4. Early Colonialism and the Working Poor. Studies in the Social History of Eighteenth-century Madras (revised English version of 1., in preparation).

II. Editorships

Mumbai – Delhi – Kolkata. Annäherungen an die Megastädte Indiens, Heidelberg: Draupadi, 2006 (joint editorship with Christiane Brosius) [Mumbai – Delhi – Kolkata. Approaches to India’s Megacities].

Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2005-2012 (co-editor in the area ‘global interaction’ for South Asia) [Encyclopaedia of Modern History].

III. Articles

1. ‘Unterwegs zur Kolonialmetropole: Madras in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahr­hun­derts’, in: Dietmar Rothermund (ed.): Periplus 1996, Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, pp. 61-75.

2. ‘Labour Unsettled. Mobility and Protest in the Madras Region, 1750–1800’, in: Indian Economic and Social History Review, 35,4 (1998), pp. 381-404 (refereed journal).

3. ‘The Origins of Colonial Labour Policy in Late Eighteenth-century Madras’, in: International Review of Social History, 44 (1999), pp. 159-195 (refereed journal).

4. ‘Geschichte der Arbeit jenseits des kulturalistischen Paradigmas. Vier Anregungen aus der Südasienforschung’, in: Jürgen Kocka/Claus Offe (eds.), Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 2000, pp. 121-134.

5. ‘Expropriating the Poor: Urban Land Control and Colonial Administration in Late Eighteenth-century Madras City’, in: Studies in History (new series) 17,1 (2001), pp. 81-99.

6. ‘Subaltern Networks under British Imperialism. Exploring the Case of South Asian Maritime Labour (c. 1890-1947)’, in: Jan-Georg Deutsch/Brigitte Reinwald (eds), Space on the Move. Transformations of an Indian Ocean Seascape in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Berlin: Klaus Schwarze Verlag, 2002, pp. 39-60.

7. ‘Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context: Madras, 1750-1800’, in: Modern Asian Studies 36,4 (2002), pp. 793-826 (refereed journal).

8. ‘State Formation and “Famine Policy” in Early Colonial South India’, in: Indian Economic and Social History Review 39,4 (2002), pp. 351-380 (refereed journal).

[reprinted in: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (ed.), Land, Politics and Trade in South Asia, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.]

9. ‘Arbeit und Kolonialherrschaft im neuzeitlichen Südasien: Eine Einführung’, in: Karin Preisendanz/Dietmar Rothermund (eds), Südasien in der ‘Neuzeit’. Geschichte und Gesellschaft 1500 – 2000 (= Weltregionen 5), Wien: Promedia, 2003, pp. 194-211.

10. ‘“The Bridge-Builders.” Some Notes on Railways, Pilgrimage and the British “Civilising Mission” in Colonial India’, in: Harald Fischer-Tiné/Michael Mann (eds): Colonialism as Civilizing Mission. The Case of British India, London: Anthem Press, 2003, pp. 195-216.

11. ‘“Opening up the Country”? Orissan Society and Early Colonial Communications Policies (1803-1866)’, in: Studies in History (new series), 20,1 (2004), pp. 73-130.

12. ‘Lateinsegel und Dampfturbinen. Der Schiffsverkehr des Indischen Ozeans im Zeitalter des Imperialismus’, in: Dietmar Rothermund/Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (eds), Der Indische Ozean. Das afro-asiatische Mittelmeer als Kultur- und Wirtschaftsraum, Wien: Promedia, 2004, pp. 207-225.

13. ‘Erkenntnisdruck und Denkbarrieren: Anmerkungen zur indischen Arbeits­historio­graphie’, in: Shalini Randeria/Martin Fuchs/Antje Linkenbach (eds): Konfigurationen der Moderne. Diskurse zu Indien (= Soziale Welt, Sonderband 15), Baden Baden: Nomos, 2004, pp. 349-366.

[also published in Hungarian language: ‘Az indiai munkásmozgalom történetének margójára’, in: Ezmélet, 62 (2004).]

14. ‘Die “Lenksamkeit” des “Lascars”. Regulierungsszenarien eines transterritorialen Arbeits­marktes in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts’, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 31,3 (2005) (refereed journal), pp. 323-353.

15. ‘Das Dickicht indischer Megastädte. Eine Annäherung’, in: Ravi Ahuja/Christiane Brosius (eds), Mumbai – Delhi – Kolkata. Annäherungen an die Megastädte Indiens, Heidelberg: Draupadi, 2006, pp. 7-15.

16. ‘Mobility and Containment: The Voyages of South Asian Seamen, c. 1900-1960’, in International Review of Social History, annual supplement 2006 (under publication, refereed journal).

17. ‘“Captain Kittoe’s Road”. Early Colonialism and the Politics of Road Construction in Nineteenth-century Peripheral Orissa’, in: Georg Pfeffer (ed.): Periphery and Centre in Orissa: Groups, Categories, Values, New Delhi: Manohar, 2006 (under publication).

18. ‘Indischer Ozean’, in: F. Jaeger (ed.), Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, vol. 5, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2007 (under publication).

19. ‘Networks of Subordination – Networks of the Subordinated. The Case of South Asian Maritime Labour under British Imperialism (c. 1890-1947)’, in: Harald Fischer-Tiné/Ashwini Tambe (eds), Spaces of Disorder. The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia and the Indian Ocean, London: Anthem, 2006 (under publication).

20. ‘Subcontractors in Early Colonial South Asia: The Case of the Madras Maistries’, in: Jan Lucassen/Ratna Saptari (eds.): Subcontracted Labour in Asia, Richmond (Surrey): Curzon Press, 200? (under publication).

21. ‘Notes on Labour Protest in Early Colonial India’, in: Prabhu Mohapatra (ed.), Labour Matters, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 200? (under publication).

IV. Reviews

1. Periplus 1996, pp. 217-220: Christian Weiß, Tom Weichert, Evelin Hust, Harald Fischer-Tiné (eds.): Religion – Macht – Gewalt. Religiöser ‘Fundamentalismus’ und Hindu-Moslem-Konflikte in Südasien.

2. Periplus 1999, pp. 199-201: Janaki Nair: Miners and Millhands. Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore.

3. Internationales Asienforum 3-4,30 (1999), pp. 397-399: Michael Mann: Flottenbau und Forstbetrieb in Indien, 1794–1823 (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 175).

4. Das Historisch-Politische Buch 48,1 (2000), pp. 69-70: Vincent J. H. Houben, J. Thomas Lindblad u. a.: Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia.

5. English Historical Review CXVI, 468 (Sept. 2001), pp. 975-976: Michael Mann: Bengalen im Umbruch. Die Herausbildung des britischen Kolonialstaates 1754-1793.

6. Das Historisch-Politische Buch (2001), pp. 525-526: Margrit Pernau: The Passing of Patrimonialism. Politics and Political Culture in Hyderabad, 1911-1948.

7. Jahrbuch der Forschungsstiftung für vergleichende europäische Überseegeschichte 2 (2002), pp. 219-221: Wolfgang Reinhard (ed.): Verstaatlichung der Welt? Europäische Staatsmodelle und außereuropäische Machtprozesse (= Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Kolloquien 47).

8. Historische Anthropologie 10,2 (2002), pp. 316-318: Sanjay Sharma: Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century (SOAS Studies on South Asia).

9. Internationales Asienforum 33,3-4 (2002), pp. 377-379: Ian J. Kerr (ed.): Railways in Modern India (in: Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History).

10. Indian Economic and Social History Review 40,1 (2003), pp. 119-121: Meena Radhakrishna: Dishonoured by History. ‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial Policy.

11. Indian Economic and Social History Review 40, 3 (2003), pp. 370-372: Prasannan Parthasarathi, The Transition to a Colonial Economy. Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800.

12. H-Soz-u-Kult, 18 November 2003/Historische Literatur 1, 4 (2003), pp. 165-167: Birthe Kundrus: Moderne Imperialisten. Das Kaiserreich im Spiegel seiner Kolonien.

13. Internationales Asienforum 35,1-2 (2004), pp. 161-163: Nandini Gooptu: The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-century India (= Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society).

14. Periplus 2005: Neuere Literatur zum Indischen Ozean – eine kritische Würdigung (review article; joint authorship with Katrin Bromber, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Margret Frenz, Patrick Krajewski and Brigitte Reinwald).

15. Indian Economic and Social History Review (2005): Chitra Joshi, Lost Worlds. Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories (im Druck).

16. Indian Economic and Social History Review (2005): Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Existence, Identity and Mobilization. The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay 1890-1919 (im Druck).

17. H-Soz-u-Kult/Historische Literatur 2005: Douglas Hay/Paul Craven (eds.), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (Studies in Legal History; in preparation).

V. Conference Reports

1. ‘’Umstrittene Zentren: Konstruktion und Wandel sozio-kultureller Identitäten in der indischen Region Orissa’. Auftaktkonferenz des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms im Schloß Salzau, 26.­–29. Mai 1999’, in: Periplus 2000, Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte.

2. Workshop ‘Exploring Indian Ocean Cultures and Histories’, in: Periplus 2003, Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, pp. 114-117.

Conference Papers and Lectures

Labour Unsettled. Mobility and Protest in the Madras Region, 1750–1800: Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, 24 March 1997.

Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context: Madras, 1750–1800: 1st International Conference of the Association of Indian Labour Historians, New Delhi, 16-18 March 1998.

The Origins of Colonial Labour Policy in Late Eighteenth-century Madras: 15th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Prague, 9-12 September 1998.

Kritische Anmerkungen zur antimodernistischen Säkularismuskritik in Indien: Inter­diszi­pli­näres Seminar ‘Das Spannungsverhältnis Mehrheit-Minderheit-Staat in Südasien’, Südasien-Institut der Uni­versi­tät Heidelberg, 19 November 1998.

Labour History after Culturalism. Some Suggestions from a South Asianist’s Perspective: ‘Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit’, Konferenz am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 4-6 March 1999.

Wege der Macht: Die Verkehrsgeschichte Orissas während der Britischen Kolonialherrschaft (1803-1947): Inaugural Conference des Orissa-Schwerpunktprogrammes der DFG, Salzau, 26-29 May 1999.

Subcontractors in Early Colonial South India: The Case of the Madras Maistries:

1) South Asia History Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 26 October 1999;
2) ‘Subcontracted Labour in Asia’, Workshop, International Research Programme ‘Changing Labour Relations in Asia’ (CLARA), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 22-24 November 1999;
3) Seminar, Integrated Labour History Research Programme, V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, 11 April 2000.

Unberührbarkeit und die moderne Arbeitswelt: ‘Südasiatische Weltbilder’, Universitäts­vorlesung an der Freien Universität Berlin, 16 December 1999.

Koloniale Staatsformierung und indische Gesellschaft im 18. Jahrhundert: Der Blick von unten: Berliner Südasien-Kolloquium, Institut für Afrika- und Asienwissenschaften, 21 December 1999.

Expropriating the Poor: Urban Land Control and Colonial Administration in Late Eighteenth-century Madras City:

1) Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture, National Institute of Social Work and Social Sciences (NISWASS), Bhubaneswar (Indien), 5 February 2000;
2) 2nd International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians, Noida, 16-18 March 2000.

Of Civilizers and Vivisectionists. Archival Evidence on Communications Develop­ment in Colonial Orissa and Some Problems of Conceptualisation: Jahreskonferenz des Orissa-Forschungsprogramms der DFG, Salzau, 10-13 May 2000.

‘Opening up the Country’? Orissan Society and Early Colonial Communications Policies (1803-1866): 16th European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, Edinburgh, 5-9 September 2000.

‘Captain Kittoe’s Road’. Early Colonialism and the Politics of Road Construction in Peripheral Orissa:

1) 3rd Annual Conference of the Orissa Research Programme, Salzau, 22-27 May 2001;
2) University of Cambridge, History Faculty, World History Workshop, 3 December 2001.

Anhaltspunkte für eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte des Verkehrs im kolonialen Südasien. Einige allgemeine Überlegungen, gewonnen aus einer Fallstudie über die indische Region Orissa: Historisches Kolloquium der Fernuniversität Hagen, 12 June 2001.

‘The Bridge-Builders.’ Some Notes on Railways, Pilgrimage and the British ‘Civilising Mission’ in Colonial India: International Convention of Asia Scholars, Berlin, 10 August 2001.

State Formation and ‘Famine Policy’ in Early Colonial India: 4th European Social Science History Conference, The Hague, 27 February 2002.

Subaltern Networks under British Imperialism. Exploring the Case of South Asian Maritime Labour (c. 1890-1947): International Conference ‘Cultural Exchange and Transformation in the Indian Ocean World’, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 5-6 April 2002.

Networks of Subordination – Networks of the Subordinated. The Case of South Asian Maritime Labour under British Imperialism (c. 1890-1947)

1) 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Heidelberg, 9-14 September 2002.
2) Seminar, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 26 February 2003.
3) Seminar, Department of History, Delhi University, 5. March 2003.

Arbeit und Kolonialherrschaft im neuzeitlichen Südasien: Eine Einführung: Ringvorlesung ‘Südasien in der ‘Neuzeit’. Geschichte und Gesellschaft 1500-2000’, University of Vienna, 9 December 2002.

Die ‘Lenksamkeit’ des ‘Lascars’. Indische Seeleute und transterritoriale Arbeitsmarkt­regulierung, 1918 bis ca. 1960: Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Südasien-Institut, Heidelberg, 18 November 2003.

Armuts- und Sozialpolitik in Indien seit ihren kolonialen Anfängen: Ringvorlesung ‘Armuts- und Sozialpolitik weltweit. Entwicklungsmuster und Wandel in Lateinamerika, Afrika, Asien, Osteuropa und der Europäischen Union’, University of Vienna, 18 December 2003.

Mobility and Containment: The Voyages of South Asian Seamen, c. 1900-1960

1) IVth International Conference of the Association of Indian Labour Historians, Noida, 18.-20 March 2004.
2) 19th VAD Conference (German African Studies Conference), Hannover, 5 June 2004.
3) 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund, 6-9 July 2004.

Lateinsegel und Dampfturbinen. Der Schiffsverkehr des Indischen Ozeans im Zeitalter des Imperialismus: Ringvorlesung ‘Das afro-asiatische Mittelmeer als Kultur- und Wirtschaftsraum’, University of Vienna, 14 June 2004.

Raum und britischer Imperialismus in Indien: Probleme einer Sozialgeschichte des Verkehrs im langen 19. Jahrhundert: Sektion ‘Raum und Imperium. Kommunikationsgeschichte in Europa im langen 19. Jahrhundert’, 45. Deutscher Historikertag, Kiel, 15 September 2004.

K. N. Chaudhuris Indischer Ozean – eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme: Workshop ‘Raum und Zeit im Indischen Ozean – Zur Konstruktion einer historischen Untersuchungseinheit’, Historisches Seminar der Universität Hannover, 22-23 January 2005.

Workers and the Dialectics of Scale. Preliminary Observations on the Spaces of South Asian Labour History: Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg), Workshop ‘Rethinking Labour from a Global Perspective’, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 1-3 December 2005.

Circulation, ‘Improvement’ and ‘Public Works’: Conceptualising the Social History of Transport in Colonial India: 19th European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden, 27-29 June 2006.

Scenarios of Labour Regulation and Transterritorial History. Some Preliminary Observations, Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg), Workshop ‘Rethinking Labour from a Global Perspective II’, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 12-14 October 2006.

Wie Seeleute Bauern blieben und Arbeitsmigranten wurden. Eine Fallstudie zu kolonialer Proletarisierung in Südasien: Ringvorlesung ‘Wie aus Bauern Arbeiter wurden’, University of Vienna, 18 October 2006.

Eighteenth-century Society, Colonialism and the Working Poor: Reconsidering the Case of Madras: 6th International Conference on Labour History, Association of Indian Labour Historians, Delhi University, 1-3 November 2006.